Ben Feuerherd
Public Safety and Policing Reporter at WNYC (New York, NY)
Assignment Desk/Associate Producer, @NY1 Priors: Politico, Messenger, NY Post.
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6 days ago |
gothamist.com | Ben Feuerherd
A woman who was struck by an SUV driver and then arrested during a Manhattan protest last year sued the city this week, claiming she was falsely arrested by the NYPD and retaliated against for exercising her free speech rights. The woman, Maryellen Novak, alleges in the federal lawsuit that police officers held her for 13 hours after her arrest at the demonstration on the Upper East Side in May 2024 but eventually released her without charges.
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1 week ago |
gothamist.com | Ben Feuerherd
Some retiring NYPD officers will be getting a boost in their pensions courtesy of state lawmakers who began voting on the final state budget on Wednesday. But the increase could cost New York City tens of millions of dollars in the coming decades. The deal will change the way pensions are computed for some retiring detectives, sergeants and lieutenants, according to budget documents outlining what’s in the state’s $254 billion spending plan.
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Ben Feuerherd
Federal investigators have tracked cars they said were stolen by a sophisticated and sprawling East Coast car theft ring back to a parking garage near Yankee Stadium, according to a criminal case filed in Brooklyn. The crew targeted airport rental cars, according to federal prosecutors. Thieves would steal keys from the rental cars while also planting GPS tracking devices inside of them.
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2 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Ben Feuerherd
Luigi Mangione is expected to appear in federal court Friday for the first time since Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed the U.S. Department of Justice to seek the death penalty in his case. Earlier this month, a federal grand jury indicted Mangione on four counts in the December killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown. Mangione is scheduled to be arraigned on the federal charges on Friday and will likely enter a not guilty plea.
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3 weeks ago |
gothamist.com | Ben Feuerherd
Mayor Eric Adams took an apparent swipe Tuesday at a Maryland senator who met with a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador – saying at a press conference that he would not sip a “tequila drink” with a gang member. “It’s time for all of us to ask the question, particularly those who are in government who find it more convenient to have a tequila drink with someone who’s a gang member: Which side are you on?” Adams said. The statement was an apparent reference to Sen.
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Members of a car theft ring used GPS monitoring to targeted rental cars from airports along the East Coast, according to federal prosecutors. Seven of the cars were later found at a garage in The Bronx ---> https://t.co/TsXn5MJrdA